Stockinbin-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal: (REL) Mrs Linden Webber

STOCKINBINGAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

T ERM TW O WEE K SEVEN 14 TH JU NE 20 19

B r i tannia Street Stockin bin gal

NSW 2725 Ph: 6943 14 77

STOCK REPORT Congratulations to our Bingal Winners - Week 6 ‐ Markus Macfar‐lane and Abbygail Small Week 7‐ Cheve Stringer and Chelsea Reid Special Awards Winners - week 7 May 2019 Congratulations to our award winners for May. I look forward to sharing a special morning tea with them next Thursday at Terese’s café! Hot choco-lates might be in order as this cooler weather set-tles in around us. Aussie’s of the Month - Jessy Fisher and Abby-gail Small for being kind and generous students

with their peers. Setting the ex-ample for how we want our stu-dents to treat one another at all times. Our Artists of the Month, Ruby Armstrong for her original art-work depicting

Aurora Australis - Southern Lights and Georgia

Reid for outstand-ing efforts during Recorder lessons in the 3-6 class-room, Our Readers for the Month Leo Yardley and Jaxon Urbaniak received their awards for setting great exam-ples to classmates in reading tasks. The Captains Award from Chel-sea Reid this month went to Ste-vie-Leigh Urbaniak for always being a welcoming and car-ing member of the school community. A truly commenda-ble award and very much deserved. A Message from Linden’s Desk… A focus on the posi-

ve at School and see the rewards in both a tude and behav-iours! What a fantas-

c fortnight it has

BE Kind ∞ BE Honest ∞ BE Fair

been at SPS! I am overjoyed by the increasingly posi-ve a tudes of all our students, especially in the 3-6

room about striving for great learning goals and try-ing their hardest in all areas of the school day. Our focus on the following Behaviours through our H2L lessons over the past fortnight, have most defi-nitely helped, and I am sure that con nued encour-agement and enthusiasm will see this con nue as we come to the end of the term.

It was fan-

tas c to see all the PJ wearing students enjoying their Lasagne during last week’s PJ DAY! Thank you to all of our families for ge ng involved!

It is so important to have students feel connected to their peers and through special days like this their community mindedness will definitely begin to de-velop and we can see them star ng to appreciate

one another and all of their similari es and differences!

I was in Young on PJ day for a Small School Network mee ng with Mrs Reimer (the Instruc onal Leader for Wombat, Bribaree and our school) and other local prin-cipals and was very pleased to chat with the Principal from Murringo who commented, again, about the great sportsmanship our students had displayed during the Small School’s Soccer game! As we head into the last few weeks of Term there is much happening at school. Our Athle cs Carnival is scheduled for the 21st of June and if all weather predic-

ons stay on course we will hopefully be able to enjoy a P&C lunch on the day, at around midday, with all fami-lies invited to support on the day. As our school will be running our event independently of Wallendbeen this year we will start our day at school for Long Jump and then head down to the Stockinbingal Recrea onal ground for running age events, field events and some novelty games during Discuss and Shotput events for the older students. Our special assembly is scheduled for Thursday 4th of July at 2pm and our Pirate Day “Baldy Shield” compe -

on will be on the 5th of July (last day of Term 2!). Thank you to those parents for taking the me to come and discuss your students learning goals and achieve-ments this semester as a pre-cursor to reports coming home at the end of the term. Please remember if there are areas of concern with your child ‘s learning or behav-iour, please schedule a me to see Mrs Joshua or myself as we are happy to discuss things with you if need be.

The K-2 students have had a fantas c fortnight work-ing on their spelling, wri ng and sight words recogni-

on. Abbygail, Ziarah and Leo (Photo next page) were working on these skills (and many more!) dur-ing class this week.

News from the 3-6 classroom. We shared some laughs last week listening to songs from musicals of the 30s and 40s, as well as the dec-ades up to the 1990s. Costumes, hairstyles and storyline were discussed. The class listened re-spec ully and it is so pleasing to see them appreci-a ng new experiences. This week it’s ancient music. This covers the years 400 CE to 1400 CE. We are looking at instruments that were used and chants sung by monks during mass. All new learning. Last week, there was enough spinach in our garden to make spinach muffins. Perhaps we used a li le too much spinach, gauging by the students’ reac-

ons! All the class waited pa ently for their turn to do something in the cooking process, and everyone had a taste of the muffins. A brave move for many. Green vegetables! Really? This bravery earned the class tokens for their class rewards. We have met the challenge of Mr Vanek’s very difficult computer find-a-word. Stuck in the Mud will be played this week (if it’s fine). Mindful-ness colouring sheets were distributed on Wednes-day with just a few more tokens for the next reward. We are collec ng tokens more quickly which is an acknowledgement of the effort all students are mak-ing to being fair to other learners. What great presenta ons on explorers! The class took notes and learnt about explorers from the Age of Discovery and Australian explorers. Australian his-tory is being taught which enables informed discus-

sion on the impact these explorers had on the envi-ronment and the First Na on people. In geography, we are learning about Indonesia in comparison to Australia. We are focusing on human and physical features of South-East Asian countries with stage 2 researching a city and stage 3 research-ing a country over the next few weeks. The talks given by students on Wednesday, showed an overall improvement in persuading others to the speaker’s point of view. The speakers used more technical language, spoke more clearly and used modal language (ask them what this means). Poetry is the literacy focus for the remainder of the term. We will be reading, wri ng and listening to all types of poems and seeing if there are any budding poets in our midst. Times tables are being prac sed to assist with frac-

ons work and division sums. Next week’s home-work will involve maths challenges! So many interes ng experiences to come – right up

to the last day of term.

Tips from e-safety guidelines documents - iParent information - check out more at esafety.gov.au

Screen time -for Tweens 10 - 14yo

Fact: On average, outside of school, 10 to 14 year olds spend 23 hours online per week1

1. Try to encourage positive screen time, like content that you can view and enjoy together. Discourage anything that is overly aggressive or disrespectful. 2. Negotiate key rules together, such as when screens can be on and when they need to be turned off. Young teens are likely to respond better to rules that they’ve contributed to and see as being fair and consistent. 3. Agree ahead of time on the rules and strategies to get your child to switch off from the screen. With gaming, think about a timer that signals that game time is nearly over and be clear about the consequences for not switching off.

What’s Coming up? Weeks 8 - 10 Term 2

Fri, 21 June - Athletics Carnival Helpers needed on the day if you’d like to join in! Parents race can be run if we have enough parents there! Week 8 - Friday 21/6 Athletics Carnival

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Thank you to all those parents and friends who are sup-por ng our Earn and Learn campaign this year! S ckers are available un l the 25th of June - so not long to go!! Last year we had about 7000 s ckers and got some fantas c rewards - let’s hope we can get lots more this year!

Wonderful music from Musica Viva at Wombat Public School on Tuesday 4th of June. Our students shared in some musi-cal learning at the Memorial Hall and then had a play and BBQ lunch at the fantas c Wombat Public School. Par-ents and teachers enjoyed seeing the great things hap-pening at Wombat and have some great ideas to bring back to school from the visit!

Aidan, Wya , Chelsea, Lily, Jack, Heidi and

Ziarah enjoying their milkshakes at 44 Hiber-nia in Week 6. Terese was so busy we could

only show her our Thumbs Up approval outside of the café!